Wi-Fi at COTF?

[blakeley]

Anyone else have problems with wifi at COTF?

Also when doing a search on wifi networks this morning I picked up 3 x MotorhomeWifi networks and about 10 mifi networks, sadly they were all encrypted

 

[Raggedroy]

I had my Netgear Aircard (mobile broadband) with me. It worked fine until Saturday. I was wondering if all of the Motorhome wifi's and Iboost played it up.

 

[WelshGas]

I was connected to a BT Fon signal via iBoost, and used my EE Buzzard to stream Wimbledon as the Fon signal was too slow. I think there wasn't a very good bandwidth available in the area. Also used the Breen Downs Pub signal as a guest but you are limited to 30mins without paying for access.

 

[Gregc]

One of the Motor Home Wifi signals you could see was probably mine.. We had a good BT Fon signal that was ok for general web browsing, Tapatalk, YouTube, Twitter, etc but not for live streaming.

 

[Sadie]

After struggling to get and hang on to my wifi connection at campsites in the UK and France I recently bought a repeater and aerial off the Internet to see if that would help out.

As I had it at with me I thought I would try it out at the COTF so paid my £10 for the 4 days and connected up. I must say it worked fine, I watched the tour live on Eurosport without too much much stuttering and it stayed connected up. There was a spell Sat evening I think when the whole thing seemed to go down but it did come back after a while.

Also with my repeater I had all our devices permanently connected to it so wasn't restricted to only 2 directly via the campsite one.

 

[reserves]

After struggling to get and hang on to my wifi connection at campsites in the UK and France I recently bought a repeater and aerial off the Internet to see if that would help out.

As I had it at with me I thought I would try it out at the COTF so paid my £10 for the 4 days and connected up. I must say it worked fine, I watched the tour live on Eurosport without too much much stuttering and it stayed connected up. There was a spell Sat evening I think when the whole thing seemed to go down but it did come back after a while.

Also with my repeater I had all our devices permanently connected to it so wasn't restricted to only 2 directly via the campsite one.

What equipment specifically did you buy?

 

[Sadie]

I bought mine from Solwise, they specialise in this type of kit, I think it cost under £80 and I set it up with my router at home separately registering all our devices to it so when I switched on at the COTF they all connected up.

I went for
1x WL-USBWIFIRPT-3000 (USB to WiFi Repeater AP)
1x NET-WL-ROCKET_BGN (Outdoor USB b/g/n adapter with 9dBi)

http://www.solwise.co.uk/index.html